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Discontinued operations | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
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Discontinued operations | 13. Discontinued operations During the quarter ended September 30, 2018, the Company signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Belize Water Services Ltd. (“BWSL”) with respect to the potential sale of its wholly owned subsidiary, Consolidated Water (Belize) Limited (“CW-Belize”), to BWSL. The Company was not otherwise considering a sale of CW-Belize, so as an incentive for the Company to consider this proposed transaction, BWSL promised in the MOU to facilitate both the conversion from Belize dollars to U.S. dollars and the subsequent repatriation of all cash balances CW-Belize had on deposit in Belize. Transfers of funds held by CW-Belize to its parent company, which were accomplished by means of conversion of Belize dollars into U.S. dollars, required the approval of the Central Bank of Belize and were dependent on the amount of U.S. dollars available to Belize banks to execute such transfers. Weakness in the Belize economy and other factors have reduced the amount of U.S. dollars that Belize banks have available for transfer, which limited for most of 2018 and in prior years the amount of funds the Company was able to transfer from CW-Belize. Repatriations of funds from CW-Belize to its parent company amounted to $458,000 and $400,000 for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively, significantly less than the net income and net cash flows CW-Belize generated for those years. With BWSL’s assistance, the Company was able to repatriate approximately $2.75 million in cash from Belize to its bank accounts in the Cayman Islands during the three months ended September 30, 2018 and an additional $1.0 million during the fourth quarter of 2018. In late December 2018, the Company’s Board of Directors formally approved the sale of CW-Belize to BWSL, and the Company repatriated an additional $1.1 million from CW-Belize during the first week of 2019. On February 14, 2019, the Company closed the transaction and completed the sale of CW-Belize to BWSL effective January 1, 2019. After adjustments, the final price for CW-Belize was approximately $7.0 million. Pursuant to the sale and purchase agreement, BWSL initially paid the Company $6.735 million of the purchase price and approximately $265,000 was withheld to cover indemnification obligations of the Company under the agreement. The remaining $265,000 of the purchase price was paid by BWSL in August 2019. Summarized financial information for CW-Belize is as follows:
|  | December 31,
|  | 2019 |  | 2018
Current assets |  | $ | — |  | $ | 1,959,494
Property, plant and equipment, net |  |  | — |  |  | 725,930
Inventory, non-current |  |  | — |  |  | 356,854
Goodwill |  |  | — |  |  | 379,651
Intangible assets |  |  | — |  |  | 467,575
Other assets |  |  | — |  |  | 14,023
Total assets of discontinued operations |  | $ | — |  | $ | 3,903,527
Total liabilities of discontinued operations |  | $ | — |  | $ | 646,452
|  | Year Ended
|  | December 31,
|  | 2019 |  | 2018
Revenues |  | $ | — |  | $ | 3,127,767
Income from operations |  |  | — |  |  | 1,154,897
Net Income |  |  | — |  |  | 1,115,825
Gain on sale of discontinued operations |  |  | 3,621,170 |  |  | —
Depreciation |  |  | — |  |  | 115,363

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